PMDE Industry Task Force (ITF) Meeting - Meeting Summary and Action Items

• Manufacturers have the right to refuse to participate in CADTH projects for a multitude of reasons, however CADTH will share the refusal and the rationale of the refusal in its reports. [...] It was clarified that the PMDE Program Development Officers do a preliminary feasibility assessment once the query is received, and query alerts are sent to the CoLab research network to notify the research teams of the potential query and to receive their input. [...] In the query process, after preliminary scoping and refining and determining if the query is a ITF Meeting Discussion and Action Items “good fit”, industry could be engaged at the same stage as the query response team is engaged, where the feasibility assessment is conducted and discussions around the available data take place. [...] It was clarified that the CoLab research teams do the evidence generation and analysis, and there is a layered approach for the interpretation of the evidence and findings. [...] The evidence and interpretation of the findings provided by the PMDE program are used by the customers to make policy decisions.